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Melissa Auf der Maur<\/a>, the former bassist of Hole<\/a>, touring member in the Smashing Pumpkins<\/a>, and co-founder of New York\u2019s Basilica Hudson, has announced a new memoir. Even the Good Girls Will Cry: A \u201990s Rock Memoir<\/em> comes out March 17 via Da Capo<\/a>. Check out the book cover below.<\/p>\n Billed as \u201cpart rock memoir, part travel diary, and part psychedelic scrapbook,\u201d Even the Good Girls Will Cry<\/em> documents Melissa Auf der Maur\u2019s life as she grew up from a teenager in Montreal immersed in the city\u2019s art and music life, to a cassette DJ and ticket girl, on through to a musician who got her big break. After her band Tinker earned an opening slot for the Smashing Pumpkins, she was whisked off on the journey of a lifetime. Auf der Mauf was invited to join Hole just in time for their 1994 Live Through This<\/em><\/a> world tour, bonded with Courtney Love<\/a> as a friend while she grieved the death of Kurt Cobain and former Hole bassist Kristen Pfaff, and began to see the alt-rock world from the inside looking out as a musician, photographer, producer, and more.<\/p>\n \u201cThis book is about the decade that defined me and my generation, 1991-2001, and my life in the rock bands which allowed me to have a front row seat to an incredibly visceral and unforgettable moment in the counterculture,\u201d said Auf der Maur. \u201cIt\u2019s a love letter to the power of music and one-of-a-kind voices that make the world a cooler place; it\u2019s also an ode to the analog, and what magic has been lost. Sharing what our generation witnessed, and what the world once was, in my hope of building a more livable future together.\u201d<\/p>\n Read about Hole\u2019s Live Through This<\/em><\/a> at No. 8 in \u201cThe 150 Best Albums of the 1990s<\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\n All products featured on Pitchfork are independently selected by our editors. However, when you buy something through our retail links, we may earn an affiliate commission.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n